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re: For those who served - Afghanistan veteran roll call
Posted on 8/13/21 at 8:05 pm to Mr Personality
Posted on 8/13/21 at 8:05 pm to Mr Personality
quote:meh Star Wars really
Not a veteran but the Afghan War and Chernobyl were the bullets in the head of the USSR
Posted on 8/14/21 at 8:54 am to OWLFAN86
Gorbachev attributes to Chernobyl disaster and what followed it to be the key reason as to why the USSR fell.
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The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later. Indeed, the Chernobyl catastrophe was an historic turning point: there was the era before the disaster, and there is the very different era that has followed. ... The Chernobyl disaster, more than anything else, opened the possibility of much greater freedom of expression, to the point that the system as we knew it could no longer continue. It made absolutely clear how important it was to continue the policy of glasnost, and I must say that I started to think about time in terms of pre-Chernobyl and post-Chernobyl.
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